EV Charge Card
An EV charge card is a simple way to access many different charge point connectors with a simple tap and go approach.
Paua produces a leading UK EV mobile app & EV charge card for businesses.
What is an EV charge card?
An EV charge card is a type of card that provides access to charging stations for electric vehicles. The EV charge card enables drivers to start and stop charging stations. Similar to traditional fuel cards for gasoline or diesel vehicles, EV charge cards enable drivers to charge their electric vehicles at participating charging stations without the need to carry cash or credit cards. RFID cards are often used for EV charge cards.
Typically, EV charge cards cards are issued by companies or organizations that manage access to charging stations. These cards are linked to a user's account, which is usually set up on an operator's website or mobile app. When a driver uses the EV charge card at a charging station, the charging cost is automatically added to their account.
Overall, electric vehicle fuel cards can make it more convenient and cost-effective for drivers to charge their electric vehicles while on the go.
Paua produces a market leading EV charge card, the Paua card, that is issued to all drivers.
What are the benefits of an EV charge card?
An EV Charge Card's main benefit is that it enables a driver to simply use an electric vehicle charge point. The best EV charge cards on the market also link to a mobile application to enable the drivers to find the charge point and to monitor their charging during the session. And of course for business drivers it places all your EV charging receipts into one location enabling analysis of the performance of the fleet.
Save time
- Keep your drivers on the road with one simple tool.
- Find the right charger with an integrated mobile app. If your EV charge card provider doesn't have an app consider looking elsewhere.
- Access all your charging receipts, or better yet for businesses – centralise these to the fleet manager who pays the bill for the drivers.
Save money
- Enable simple accounting and tax management with one centralised bill.
- Remove pre-authorisation issues with credit cards; no more 5 x £30 locked up by a charge point operator.
Improved user experience
- One card, one app, and centralised payments means that you don't need to ask your driver to download loads of apps and sign up to lots of subscriptions. Just one tool for the job.
Who should use an EV charge card?
An EV charge card is great for anyone wishing to simplify their EV charging experience. Business drivers in particular benefit from saving time and improved experience.
Whilst a Visa or Mastercard credit card can be used on some rapid charging locations it does still require the driver to faff around finding charging receipts particularly if they are a business driver.
Read more about charger receipts in our blog.
How to compare EV charge cards?
What is the best EV charge card?
Here are some questions to help you search for the best RFID EV charge card. When you compare EV Charge Cards to find the best EV charge card you should consider the following factors:
- Does the EV charge card work across enough networks?
- Does the EV charge card have a wide enough density of charging points?
- Does the EV charge card have an associated mobile phone app to support drivers finding EV chargers?
- Does your EV charge card provider offer an integrated dashboard for real time updates on your businesses charging?
- Does your EV charge card provider enable you to simply access your EV charging data?
- Does your EV charge card provider enable you to block cards that are lost or stolen with the touch of a button? In the app and the dashboard?
- How much will I pay for my EV charge card? How much does charging cost on my EV charge card?
Paua is able to give you a positive response on all the above with 24 networks, 54,000 charge point connectors, one Paua app for every driver, a powerful charging dashboard, full access to your data and the ability to freeze or remove EV charge cards directly inside the app and the dashboard.
Buyer beware - there are some websites out there that appear as independent comparison sites for fuel cards but they are not. Please make sure that you know who you are researching with.
- Icompario - owned by Radius Fuel cards.
- CompareFuelCards - owned by Fleetcor (AllStar's parent company).
What are some of the networks on EV charge cards?
Save time
And many more! See the latest list of Paua EV network partners here.
Or download our app to see all the networks and live chargepoint data.
How much will you pay for your EV charge card?
What are the fuel / EV charging prices?
When you assess your EV charge card consider how much you will pay.
An EV charge card is a service to a business and a driver so expect to pay for the access to the solution, for the card upfront and then for the charging on the electric vehicle charging points (the equivalent to your fuel cost).
Paua charges a simple fee structure which can be found here.